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An employee removes vials of Covishield, the local name for the Covid-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca Plc. and the University of Oxford, from a machine on the production line at the Serum Institute of India Ltd. Hadaspar plant in Pune, Maharashtra, India, on Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. Serum, which is the world's largest vaccine maker by volume, has an agreement with AstraZeneca to produce at least a billion doses. Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Por qué ni siquiera la presión presidencial podría acelerar las vacunas contra covid

January 26, 2021 at 6:35 p.m.

Miles de estadounidenses están muriendo a causa de covid-19, pero los esfuerzos para aumentar la producción de vacunas que potencialmente salvan vidas están en un callejón sin salida. Moderna y...

El presidente Donald Trump al regresar a la Casa Blanca luego de estar hospitalizado en el Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, el lunes 5 de octubre. Aunque Trump ha definido a las farmacéuticas como "grandes compañías", en la recta final de la campaña, el dinero en contribuciones de estas empresas están beneficiando al candidato demócrata Joe Biden.

Farmacéuticas elogiadas por Trump mandan dinero a Biden

October 9, 2020 at 3:10 p.m.

Los gigantes farmacéuticos Regeneron y Gilead Sciences obtuvieron el tipo de publicidad que el dinero no puede comprar luego que el presidente Donald Trump tomara sus medicamentos experimentales para tratar...

What to do if you test positive | If you receive a positive test result for COVID-19, the most important thing to do right away is to minimize any exposure to other people, according to the Washington State Department of Health, and your family members or anyone else you've come into contact with should be tested. Your symptoms may stay very mild—or you may be one of the lucky people who never experiences symptoms—but severity of symptoms doesn't affect how contagious you are. If you have symptoms, call your doctor and ask if your symptoms are of the kind or severity that warrants a trip to the hospital or other treatment.

Rather than give away its COVID vaccine, Oxford makes a deal with drugmaker

August 26, 2020 at 9:40 p.m.

In a business driven by profit, vaccines have a problem. They're not very profitable — at least not without government subsidies. Pharma companies favor expensive medicines that must be taken...

A patient sits in her apartment in the Brooklyn borough of New York during a Jan. 14, 2019 telemedicine video conference with Dr. Deborah Mulligan.Policymakers and insurers say they are eliminating copayments, deductibles and other barriers to telemedicine for patients. But the shift to cost-free telehealth is going less smoothly than speeches and news releases suggest.

Insurers are touting ‘telehealth’ doctor visits as a free solution. But patients often find out otherwise.

April 28, 2020 at 7:26 p.m.

Karen Taylor had been coughing for weeks when she decided to see a doctor in early April. COVID-19 cases had just exceeded 5,000 in Texas, where she lives. Cigna, her...

Margaret Jones, center, with Kensington employees, is seen from her second-story window after celebrating her 91st birthday with Amber and Lucy Cavazos, from Huntington Park, who had used a lift to reach her window's height, in the courtyard of assisted living facility Kensington Redondo Beach.

Many seniors depend on assisted living facilities. Now coronavirus is threatening the entire industry.

April 9, 2020 at 6:44 p.m.

David Aguirre jumped in his truck and drove toward the hospital in the predawn darkness the minute he got the news: His 91-year-old mom was being rushed from her Texas...

As coronavirus spreads widely, millions of older Americans live in counties with no ICU beds

March 25, 2020 at 5:46 p.m.

More than half the counties in America have no intensive care beds, posing a particular danger for more than 7 million people who are age 60 and up older patients...

The National Consumer Law Center's model medical debt law would require substantial discounts for families of four with income below $103,000 and relief for patients with even higher incomes facing catastrophic bills.

Hospital group mum as members pursue patients with lawsuits and debt collectors

January 16, 2020 at 8:37 a.m.

The American Hospital Association, the biggest hospital trade group, says it promotes "best practices" among medical systems to treat patients more effectively and improve community health. But the powerful association...

Dow’s dogs play dead, fail to fetch any gains

August 21, 2021 at 12:02 p.m.

The Dogs of the Dow lived down to their name last year, delivering a total return of about negative 5 percent including dividends--worse than the 1.7 percent total return posted...

However it’s spun, Baltimore is losing a headquarters

August 21, 2019 at 9:14 p.m.

As sales of key corporate citizens to out-of-town landlords go, the merger of Constellation Energy with FPL Group isn't that bad. So why are they trying to spin us like...

U.S. probes grant to city nonprofit

March 29, 2019 at 2:10 a.m.

The U.S. Education Department's inspector general is investigating whether a senior official of the agency improperly helped the National Federation of the Blind win a key federal grant around the...

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